alesha@auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) (06/05/91)
I am planning to introduce some formal training for the software developers in our business unit here and would like information on things that have worked for you. I'm interested in hands-on training, where developers are given a problem to solve, and to solve it well will have to use certain design and coding techniques, the ones that the particular lesson is about. After the hands on part, there would be discussion about the approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. My initial interest is in high-level and low level design, but I'm also interested in anything that can help our developers increase their skill level. Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone know of any consultants who will come in and organize/train us on this type of thing? Does anyone know of public domain lessons/examples we could do this with? thanks, Alec Sharp -- ------Any resemblance to the views of Auto-trol is purely coincidental----- Don't Reply - Send mail: alesha%auto-trol@sunpeaks.central.sun.com Alec Sharp Auto-trol Technology Corporation (303) 252-2229 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO 80241-2404
skrone@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (stuart.krone) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com> alesha@auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) writes: > >I am planning to introduce some formal training for the software >developers in our business unit here and would like information on >things that have worked for you. > >I'm interested in hands-on training, where developers are given a >problem to solve, and to solve it well will have to use certain design >and coding techniques, the ones that the particular lesson is about. > >After the hands on part, there would be discussion about the >approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. > >My initial interest is in high-level and low level design, but I'm >also interested in anything that can help our developers increase >their skill level. > >Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone know of any >consultants who will come in and organize/train us on this type >of thing? Does anyone know of public domain lessons/examples we could >do this with? > >thanks, > >Alec Sharp >-- >------Any resemblance to the views of Auto-trol is purely coincidental----- >Don't Reply - Send mail: alesha%auto-trol@sunpeaks.central.sun.com >Alec Sharp Auto-trol Technology Corporation >(303) 252-2229 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO 80241-2404 When I first started working for AT&T they sent me to a class called Initial Designer Training. It's 8 hours a day, five days a week for 3 months. You take a final exam which lasts two weeks and it's pass/fire. The final consists of debugging a program and writting one. This may be more involved than you are interested in however, it may be a good model to start with. If you are interested send e-mail and I'll dig up more info. Stu These views are mine, not AT&T's, but they are available for rent
jto@litwin.com (John O'Beck) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com alesha@auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) writes: >> >>I am planning to introduce some formal training for the software >>developers in our business unit here and would like information on >>things that have worked for you. >> >>I'm interested in hands-on training, where developers are given a >>problem to solve, and to solve it well will have to use certain design >>and coding techniques, the ones that the particular lesson is about. I have taken classes from Yourdon (a Kodak company) and the Oracle people. For generic analysis/design/project management, I can highly recomend the Yourdon classes. They offer a range of different classes of different lengths (and depth). Oracle's Database Design class is excellent even if you are not using Oracle. I know thal Learning Tree offers a very wide range of classes and have heard good things about them "from a friend of a friend". They would